I bet Pluto sues for size discrimination, and wins in today's day and age of dumb lawsuits.

Maybe they figure kids will get higher test scores having one less "planet" to learn......

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Tavish wrote:Good job by the astronomers. I never did care for Pluto much. In school we always made fun of it because all the other planets like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune got their names from Mythological Gods but Pluto got named after the stupid Disney dog. The next one they need to wipe off is Uranus.

I could have sworn Pluto was supposed to be the Roman allegory for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld...

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Tavish wrote:Good job by the astronomers. I never did care for Pluto much. In school we always made fun of it because all the other planets like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune got their names from Mythological Gods but Pluto got named after the stupid Disney dog. The next one they need to wipe off is Uranus.

I could have sworn Pluto was supposed to be the Roman allegory for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld...

You would've won the Random Quiz with that answer.

ACS, we'll just pretend Pluto has been sucked into that Pink Taco astronomers call the Black Hole.

Tavish wrote:Good job by the astronomers. I never did care for Pluto much. In school we always made fun of it because all the other planets like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune got their names from Mythological Gods but Pluto got named after the stupid Disney dog. The next one they need to wipe off is Uranus.

I could have sworn Pluto was supposed to be the Roman allegory for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld...

Did you know that the scientific name for our moon is 'moon.' Real original you astronomer dorks.

No different than calling a fly a fly. Genius at work right there in both cases.

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Did you know that the scientific name for our moon is 'moon.' Real original you astronomer dorks.

No different than calling a fly a fly. Genius at work right there in both cases.

Yeah, but a fly isn't a fly... there are different kinds of flies, each with ridiculously difficult to pronounce scientific names; I can understand the naming conventions as a way of keeping the terminology universal.

For instance, all flies in science are actually called Diptera; the most common known as the House fly (Musca domestica).